Abstract: We present a novel acoustic camera simulator that generates realistic sonar images by incorporating recursive ray tracing and sonar artifact modeling and provides various ground truth labels ...

Illustration by Klawe Rzeczy for TIME. Source images: Bhawika Chhabra—Reuters (Amodei); Yoan Valat—Pool/AFP/Getty Images (Trump); Aaron Ontiveroz—The Denver Post/Getty Images (Hegseth); J. David ...

On the occasion of receiving the most influential test-of-time paper award for his POPL 2011 paper (which describes the technology behind the popular Flash Fill feature in Excel), Sumit shares stories ...

Mojang Studios announced Tuesday it will eliminate code obfuscation in Minecraft: Java Edition, marking a significant shift in how the company distributes the game to its modding community. The change ...

This project aims at providing a Optix Version of the 'final chapter' example in Pete Shirley's "Ray Tracing in one Week-End" series. If you haven't read that book ...

Genes are the building blocks of life, and the genetic code provides the instructions for the complex processes that make organisms function. But how and why did it come to be the way it is? "We find ...

A group of Chinese scientists has created powerful new tools that allow them to edit large chunks of DNA with incredible accuracy—and without leaving any trace. Using a mix of advanced protein design, ...

Kiro is the new Amazon Web Services IDE for creating software projects using agentic AI. A developer using Kiro creates a specification for the desired program, and Kiro uses Claude Sonnet (3.7 or 4.0 ...

In March, a plane carrying British-born influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate landed in Florida. Travel restrictions on the duo, accused of human trafficking and rape in Romania (and, separately, in the ...

The 2025 Kentucky Derby will take place on Saturday, May 3, and TwinSpires is putting together a terrific offer for new users who want to get in on the action for the “fastest two minutes in sports.” ...